Sentences with phrase «child services agency»

All child welfare decisions should be made in the best interests of the child, not based on the personal beliefs of child services agencies or workers.

This can have psychological consequences, and child services agencies usually prefer to unite and strengthen families, rather than tear them apart.

Discriminatory adoption and foster care laws allow child services agencies to keep a child in foster care or a government group home rather than allowing her to be adopted by qualified, loving parents, simply because they don't pass an agency's religious test.

As reported by The Buffalo News, StudentsFirstNY supported James Sampson, the president and CEO of Gateway - Longview child services agency, and Jason McCarthy, a manager at Hutch's restaurant:

Married to former Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, as first lady, Holton worked with child service agencies to increase the number of foster children entering permanent family arrangements, leading a number of initiatives to promote collaboration across the entire sector.

A law professor and her wife have sued the federal government, alleging that a federally funded child services agency refused to consider placing a child with them because they don't...

A number of acts of legislation in the United States, such as the Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980, promote this and create mandates for regional child services agencies to follow in their handling of child placements.

In order to be eligible for State - funded adoption assistance a child must be a special needs child as defined above, legally free for adoption, and in the custody of a public children services agency or private child - placing agency.

«License to discriminate» laws allow child services agencies to refuse to place LGBTQ youth - who are overrepresented in the foster care system - with affirming and accepting parents.

But the child services agency sees things differently.

You could also be employed by a public family or child services agency, as well as a tribal college or university.

Information about parenting is frequently available at the community level through family and child service agencies, and many therapists specialize in helping families transition.

The child must also be under the age of eighteen, or between the ages of eighteen and twenty - one with a mental or physical disability as diagnosed by a qualified professional, placed in an adoptive home approved by a public children services agency, private child placing agency or private non-custodial agency.

by Sandra Morgan Little and Jan B. Gilman - Tepper from the ABA Family Advocate Client Manual: Visitation / Parenting Time Every single day all over this country, children are separated from a parent for a variety of reasons that range from parental kidnapping, parental alienation, misconduct, incarceration, voluntary abandonment, military deployment, or placement away from a parent by a child services agency or the court.